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I’m using structure entries to display a hierarchical list of files.  I want to organize these files by category on the same page with headers.

Example:

Red Vehicles
-Red Car
-Red Truck

Blue Vehicles
-Blue Car
-Blue Motorcycle
-Blue Truck

I’m having an impossible time getting structure entries to play well with categories and vice-verse.

I used categories archive, but this list ALL of the entries that have a particular category assignment.

Is there a way to filter categories archives by structure entry?

Does anyone have experience with this or a work-around?

I created a work-around using php.
I created a custom dropdown field that contains a list of categories.  Then I create my headers based on the field.

This code goes at the top of my structure entries loop

<?php          
  if ($Header != “{cat_type}”){
$Header = "{cat_type}”;
  echo “<h3 class=‘header’>” . $Header . “s</h3>” ;
      }           
?> 

The only problem is that Structure can not orderby.  So I just have to make sure my entries with the same category are next to each other in my structure hierarchy.

No perfect, nor user friendly.  I sure hope structure include category and orderby support in the future

Paw Paw,

Structure is a third-party addon which we don’t support. They have their own support forums though and will be able to help you there.

There are also 2 add-ons available which helps Structure to play nice with categories called Freebie and Zoo Triggers